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Google Earth Sees A Swasticka At US Navy Base

by | 28th, September 2007

swastika-us-navy.jpgTHANK to Google Earth, the New York Times is able to bring us this image of a Naval Base Coronado near San Diego. See it?

The Navy plans to spend $600,000 for “camouflage” landscaping and rooftop adjustments so that 1960s-era barracks at the Naval Base Coronado near San Diego will no longer look like a Nazi swastika from the air.

The offial line:

“There was no reason to redo the buildings because they were in use,” a spokeswoman for the base, Angelic Dolan, said. She added that the buildings were in a no-fly zone that is off limits to commercial airlines, so most people would not see them from the air.

“You have to realize back in the ’60s we did not have the Internet,” Ms. Dolan said. “We don’t want to offend anyone, and we don’t want to be associated with the symbol.

Did no-one notice at the time? Conspiracy theorists and truthers your thoughts please…



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